Pulaski County, MO. – On June 23, 2024, two individuals were seriously injured following a crash that occurred at 9:56 a.m.
6 miles west of Crocker on Highway U, 21-year-old Jerry Halton, an individual from Dallas, Texas, was driving west when he ran off the right side of the roadway and struck a tree. Halton and 25-year-old Zachary Wideman, a passenger from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, were both seriously injured in the crash and taken to the University Hospital in Columbia for treatment. The vehicle driven was a 2020 Hino 268, which was totaled in the incident. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, both individuals involved in the crash failed to wear their seat belts.
Trooper T.R. Adelman and Trooper E.A. Ferrel of Troop I investigated this crash.
